Siheyuan: Returning from studying abroad, with extraordinary understanding

"The smell of meat didn't come from the Lin family, it was the Jia family frying meat. I wanted to take some wine to the Jia family to have a meal, but Jia Dongxu didn't give me any face at all."

"He actually said I was shameless, and then his father and Lao Yi were causing trouble, so I couldn't calculate them at all."

"The Jia family and the Yi family are both old foxes, and it is very difficult to plot against them."

Yan Bugui finished speaking in one breath. Liu Xiaofang also knew the situation of the Jia and Yi families, but she didn't dare to say more.

"What about the Lin family? There's no way they won't buy meat when their son comes back!"

"The Lin family bought the meat, but Lin Changqing was too smart and didn't give me any chance. I thought he would ask me for help with the misunderstanding that happened when I came back just now, but I didn't expect him to not give us any face at all."

"When he was angry, he was really scary! He was not an ordinary person, so I didn't dare to provoke him! You know the situation at that time!"

Yan Bugui recalled that Lin Changqing was always very calm when facing the middle-aged women holding kitchen knives. He would not dare to offend such people easily.

How could he have survived the war and not known how to judge people?

Liu Xiaofang understood it in her heart, but she was somewhat unwilling to accept it.

Just then, the three sons smelled the meat and started clamoring to eat it.

The younger son couldn't get his food and was already rolling on the ground throwing a tantrum.

When they smelled the meat, they started to make a fuss. Yan Bugui and his wife had just tried to calm them down, but now the smell of the meat was getting stronger and stronger, and their three sons were becoming even more noisy.

"I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat."

"Dad, Mom, I want to eat meat."

The three sons' noise made Yan Bugui and his wife very annoyed.

"Look at your sons, they are clamoring for meat, and you don't want to think of a solution! Are you going to let them starve?"

Liu Xiaofang began to blame Yan Bugui, and Yan Bugui also became angry when he heard it.

"Why are you only talking about my son? Aren't the three sons your sons?"

Yan Bugui didn't want to quarrel with Liu Xiaofang, so he turned to scold his three sons, "Why are you making a fuss? If you want to eat meat, then find a way to earn money! If you don't have money, what kind of meat do you eat? If you want to eat meat, then go buy it yourself if you have the ability!"

"If you keep making trouble, you won't have dinner tonight!"

After being scolded like this, the three of them didn't dare to make a fuss anymore. They all knew that if they continued to make a fuss, their father would really stop giving them food.

When Liu Xiaofang saw that her three sons had calmed down and smelled the aroma of meat, she felt unwilling and looked at Yan Bugui.

"They've bought the meat, your plan failed, are you just going to give up like that?"

"Of course not. The Lin family bought roast duck, the most famous roast duck in the city! How could I give up so easily?"

Speaking of roast duck, Yan Bugui couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

"Roast duck? The century-old brand in Sijiu City? Boss, have you seen him bring back roast duck?"

Liu Xiaofang also knew that century-old restaurant, but she had never eaten there because the roast duck there was too expensive and it was never sold to ordinary people before.

It was only after liberation that it reopened and started selling to ordinary people.

"I didn't see it, but I definitely couldn't mistake the aroma of roast duck."

"Boss, hurry over there, otherwise they will have finished eating!" Liu Xiaofang was anxious. If they had finished eating, she would not be able to plan for anything.

"I wanted to go, but I don't have a good excuse. Now the smell of fried meat is coming from Jia's house. Let the children go and ask for meat. So we won't go."

Yan Bugui was too proud to let go. If he shamelessly went to the Lin family and the Lin family didn't let him in, wouldn't he be very embarrassed?

He didn't want to offend the Lin family so easily.

"Go, how can you not go? You go to the Lin family, and let the children go to the Jia family. No matter what, you have to get some meat back, especially the roast duck from the Lin family. If you can't get it back, don't even think about cheating anyone."

Liu Xiaofang was not satisfied with Yan Bugui's behavior. She no longer cared about her face. How could she miss such delicious food?

"Okay!" Yan Bugui thought of the aroma of roast duck and decided to go for it.

He picked up his "treasured" wine (which had been diluted with water) and saw his three sons looking at him straight.

Yan Bugui sighed:

"Come here, three of you, take the bowls and follow me. You will be guarding the door of Jia's house later. You should know what to do."

"Dad, we know!"

The three children are already familiar with this aspect.

The family in the courtyard eats meat, and these children have the most flexible noses. If we don’t give them some, rumors will spread the next day that the family that eats meat is rich and unkind.

This trick has been tried and tested. In the past, when the national army came to collect taxes, they would be in big trouble once the rumor spread.

Therefore, every household ate meat in secret, not daring to let other residents know.

Other residents let their children visit them, but they did so out of consideration for their reputation and did not come shamelessly.

Compared to the Yan family, the Yi family is much quieter.

The Yi family has no children, so no matter who eats meat, everything is very quiet.

As soon as he returned home, he saw that his daughter-in-law Ma Xiu Lan had already prepared dinner and was waiting for him.

He was quite satisfied with having such a wife.

So he told Ma Xiulan:

"Xiu Lan, let's go to the Jia family for dinner tonight. Take these dishes over later."

"Okay, so Dongxu became an apprentice at the steel mill?"

When Ma Xiulan heard that they were going to the Jia family for dinner, she knew it was a happy event.

"Hmm!" Yi Zhonghai nodded and sat down to drink tea.

Ma Xiulan had nothing to do, so she sat down too.

"Did you know that the son who studied abroad that the Lin family has been talking about is back?"

Ma Xiulan couldn't help but speak.

"He's back? When did it happen?"

"Fifteen minutes ago, you didn't know that after he came back, he had a conflict with everyone."

Then Ma Xiulan described in detail how Lin Changqing came back, how Jia Zhang misunderstood her, and how a group of middle-aged women came out to confront her.

After hearing this, Yi Zhonghai frowned. Lin Changqing was too disrespectful to the people in the yard. Such a person would definitely not abide by the rules.

"No, we need to find an opportunity to teach him to respect the elderly and love the young. People like him are very restless. If other young people in the courtyard also follow his example, won't our courtyard be in chaos?"

Yi Zhonghai realized from this incident that he could not control Lin Changqing, and as long as Lin Changqing was around, something bad might happen.

"Boss, we are not his relatives, so why should we educate him?"

Ma Xiulan was a little confused. Why did her husband start to educate Lin Changqing as soon as Lin Changqing came back?

"This!" Yi Zhonghai was speechless for a moment. He really didn't expect that he was nothing now and there was really no reason to educate others!

However, he will not give up this idea.

"Yeah, then just ignore him." Yi Zhonghai didn't want to continue this topic anymore, so he changed the subject.

"Xiu Lan, what do you think about me taking Dong Xu as my apprentice?"

When Ma Xiulan heard this, her eyes lit up, but then dimmed again.